Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-20
THE NEW SOUTH.
Address of II. w. Grady Before the
New England Society
At the Forefa TIERS Dinner I'm New York
Eloquent Tributes to Abraham Lin
coin, the Confederate Soldiers,
and the Restored Union.

aud freedom-that South is living, breathing,
from the lips of Benjamin 81. Hill. in Tammany
Han, in 1855 make my text for tonight
Pardon me one word, Mr. President. spoken
go out annually freighted with the rich eloquence
of your speakers-the fact that the cavalier as
we'll as the Puritan this continent in its
early days, and he was up and able to be
about" I have read your books carefully, and
/ find no mention of that fact which seems to
me important for preserving sort Of historical
equilibrium.
Your charming little books shall let him work
out his own salvation, he has always done
controversy as to his merits. why should ives
Neither Puritan nor cavalier long survived as
such. The virtues and traditions of both hap
PLY still live for the inspiration of their sons and
the saving of the old fashion Both Puritan and
cavalier were lost in the storm of their first rev.
olution, and the American citizen, supplanting
both and stronger than either took possession
OF the Republic bought by their common blood
With teaching them free government and estab-
lishstir- the voice of the people the voice of
God; Great types, like valuable plants, are
slow &C flower and fruit. But from the union of
these colonists from the strengthening of their
purposes and the crossing of their blood, slow
stands as the first typical American. the first
who comprehended within himself all the
strength and gentleness, all the majesty and
WAS the sum of Puritan and cavalier, for in his
ardent nature We're fused the virtues of both,
and in the depth OF his great soul the faults OF
both were lost. He was greater than Puritan,
greater than cavalier in that he was American,
and that in his homeiy form were first gathered
the vast and thrilling forces of this ideal gov
eminent, charging it with such tremendous
fering that martyrdom, though UNANIMOUSLY
aimed, came as fitting crown to a life conse-
Grated from its cradle to human liberty. Let
US. each chershing his traditions and honoring
his fathers build with reverent hands to the
type of this simple but sublime life. in which all
which We shall win as Americans. there viii be
plenty and to spare for your forefathers and for
mine.
In speaking to the toast which you have hon
ored me accept the term, THE New South. as
IN no sense disparaging to the old. Dear to me.
sir, are the home of my childhood and the tradl-
tons of my people. There is a new South, not
through protest against the old. but because of
new conditions, new adjustments, and, if you
please, new ideas and as pirations. It is to this
that address myself ask you- gentlemen. to
buttoning 1p in his faded gray Jacket the parole
which was taken, testimony to his children of
his fidelity and faith, turned his face southwark
from Appomattox in April, 1865 Think of him
as ragged, half-starved, heavy-hearted, enfee-
blcd by want and wounds, having fought to ex-
haustion. he surrenderS his gun, wringS the
hands of his comrades. and hitting his tear
stained and palld face for the last time to the
gray cap over his brow, and begins the slow and
painful Journey. What does he find-let me ask
you. who went to your homes eager to find all
the welcome you had Justly earned, full pay
ment for your four years sacrifice-what does
he find when he reaches the home he left four
years before? He finds his house in ruins his
farm devastated, his slaves freed, his stock
killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his
money worthless his social system, feudal in its
magnifcence, swept away, his people without
law or legal status, his comrades slain, and the
burdens of others heavy his shoulders.
without money. credit. employment, material.
or training-and. besides all this confronted
with the gravest problem that ever met human
intelligence-the establishment of a status for
the vast body of his liberated slaves.
What does he do-this hero in gray. with a
heart of gold-does he sit down in sullenness
and despair? Not for day. Surely God, who
has scourged him in his prosperity inspired him
in his adversityl AS ruin was never before SO
overwhelming. never was restoration swifter
The soldier stepped from the trenches into the
furrow horses that had charged Federal guns
marched before the plow and fields that ran red
with human blood in April were green with the
their dresses and made breaches for their huS-
bands, and with patience and heroism that fits
woman always as garment, gave their hands
to work. There was little bitterness in all
this. Cheerfulness and frankness prevailed.
''Bl Arp struck the keynote when he said
"Well, killed as many of them as they did OF
me- and now am going to work. or the sol.
der, returning home after defeat and roasting
mark to his comrades You may leave the
South if you want to, but am going to Sander
vile, kiss my wife and raise crop, and If the
Yankees fool with me any more Will whip EN-
again. want to say to General Sherman, who
is considered an able man in our parts, though
some people think he is kind of careless man
about fire-that from the ashes left US in 1854 we
have raised brave and beautiful city; that.
somehow or other, we have caught the sunshine
in the bricks and mortar of our homes, and have
builded therein not one single ignoble prejudice
or memory.
But what is the sum of our work: We have
found OFT that in the general summing up the
free negro counts more than he did as q slave
We have planted the School-house on the hill
top and made it free to white and black. We
have sowed towns and cities in the place o.
theories, and put business above politics. We
have challenged your spinners in Massachusetts:
and your iron makers in Pennsylvania We
have learned that the 81, Loo 100000 annually re
ceived from our cotton crop will make US rich
when the supplies that make 1t are home
raised We have reduced the commercial rate
of interest from twenty to six per cent, ant
are floating four per cent bonds. We have
learned that one Northern immigrant is wortl
fifty foreigners. and have smoothed the path Il
the southwark, wiped out the place wher
Mason and Dixon's line used TO be. and hunl
lur latch-string out to you and yours. We have
reached the point that marks perfect harmon.
IN every household. when the husband confesSe
hat the pies which his own wife cooks are a
FOOD as those his mother used to bake; an,
We admit that the sun shines as brightly ant
he moon as softly as it did before tn
country We have fallen in love with work. w
have restored comfort to homes from whic
culture and elegance never departed we hay
let economy take root and spread among US a
rank as the crab-grass which sprang from Shel
man cavalry camps 3n,i we are he Sone o 20
pure olive oil out of his cotton seed, against an
down Easter that ever snapped wooden nu
megs for flannel sausages in the valleys OF We
mont. Above all. We know that We have achieve
in these piping times of peace fuller lnd'
pendence for the South than that which OF
fathers sought to win in the forum by their ell
0uence or compel on the fields by their swords
1t is rare privilege, sir, to have had par
however humble. in this work Never wa
nobler duty confded to human hands than tn
up-building of the PROSTATE and bleeding Sout
misguided. perhaps but beautiful in her SUITE
ing, and honest, brave and generous always. L
the record of her social, industrial and polite;
restoration await with confidence the Verde
of the world.
But what of the negro? Have we solved tn
problem he presents, progressed in homo
w and equity toward its solutions Let the recor
speak on this point. No section shows mol
prosperous population than the negroes of Il
4 South, none in fuller sympathy with the er
pioying and landowning class. He shares oil
school fund.- has the fullest protection of OF
- laws and the friendship of our people. Sci
interest as well as honor demand that he shou
have this. Our future, our very existence q
pend upon our working out this problem IN IL
and exact justice. We understand that WHIT
Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamatl(
YOUR victory was assured, for he then col
against which the arms of men can not preVi
while those of our statesmen who made slave
the cornerstone of the Confederacy doomed
to defeat, committing us to a cause that reas.
could not defend or the sword maintain in q
light of advancing civilization. Had
Toolnbs said, which he did not say. tn
he would call the roll OF his slaves at the 10
of Bunker Hill, he would have been 1oolis
slavery became entangled in war 1t must peris
and that the chattie in human flesh ended Il
ever in New England when your fathers-not
be blamed for parting with what dldn pay-sc
their slaves to our fathers-not to be praised
knowing a paying thing when they saw it. The
Iations of the Southern people with the neg
are close and cordial. We remember with WI
fidelity for four years he guarded our defen:
less women and children, whose husbands a
fathers were fighting against their freedom.
his eternal credit be 1t said that whenever
struck blow for his own liberty he fought
omen battle, and when at last he raised
b1anl- and humble hands that the snack